15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

James Hale (DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus, Rats and Mice (Lumo)
  2. The Nels Cline Singers, Share the Wealth (Blue Note)
  3. Dave Douglas, Marching Music (Greenleaf Music)
  4. Ran Blake & Andrew Rathbun, Northern Noir (SteepleChase)
  5. Joshua Redman-Brad Mehldau-Christian McBride-Brian Blade, Round Again (Nonesuch)
  6. Aaron Parks, Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man (Ropeadope)
  7. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Life Goes On (ECM)
  8. Liberty Ellman, Last Desert (Pi)
  9. John Scofield, Swallow Tales (ECM)
  10. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note)

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